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标题：Brief communication: Pancake ice floe size distribution during the winter expansion of the Antarctic marginal ice zone
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作者：Alberto Alberello ; Miguel Onorato ; Luke Bennetts 等
期刊名称：The Cryosphere
印刷版ISSN：1994-0416
电子版ISSN：1994-0424
出版年度：2019
卷号：13
期号：1
页码：41-48
DOI：10.5194/tc-13-41-2019
出版社：Copernicus Publications
摘要：The size distribution of pancake ice floes is calculated from images acquired during a voyage to the Antarctic marginal ice zone in the winter expansion season. Results show that 50 % of the sea ice area is made up of floes with diameters of 2.3–4 m. The floe size distribution shows two distinct slopes on either side of the 2.3–4 m range, neither of which conforms to a power law. Following a relevant recent study, it is conjectured that the growth of pancakes from frazil forms the distribution of small floes (D4 m).